Anne M. Whalen was involved in local Democratic political campaigns in the Syracuse, New York area from 1960 to 1968. She worked on John F. Kennedy's presidential campaign in 1960, and received a note of thanks from then-candidate Kennedy in October 1960 for her work on the Telephone Campaign Committee. By 1964, she was president of the Town of Salina Women's Democratic Club, and staff director of Citizens for Johnson-Humphrey-Kennedy in Syracuse. In 1967, she helped arrange an event for Robert F. Kennedy at the Hotel Syracuse for which she received a letter of thanks from him. She was married to John P. Whalen, a vice president at the Syracuse Savings Bank, who died in 1990 at age 64. They had three daughters, Kathleen, Patrice, and Denise, and a son, John. She was an acquaintance of Ralph H. Horton, a former Syracuse resident and former classmate of John F. Kennedy's at Choate and Princeton, who ran Kennedy's presidential campaign in Nebraska and then worked for the Secretary of the Army from 1961 to 1969.
From the description of Whalen, Anne M. (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration). naId: 10610981
